The Queer Spirit Podcast

Episode 9:
Reconnecting to the Wild Spirit
of the Land with Laura Perlin

Laura Perlin is a Tarot card reader, intuitive counselor, and ritualist. She works especially with personal and collective transformations, resolution of chronic & mysterious health challenges, and ancestral lineage repair. Her approach to healing work is rooted in anti-oppression practice and animist sensibilities. Laura grew up on Ohlone lands in the SF Bay Area and is of Jewish, Sakha (Siberian indigenous), Roma, and Finnish ancestry. She is a founding member of Embodiment Arts Collective, a healing arts and events space in San Francisco rooted in queer and outsider communities.

Episode Highlights

We discuss how Laura’s work in national forests lead to mystical experiences by connecting to the presence of land in the wilds of nature, and the cultivating of relationship with other-than-human entities.

Ritual work as healing, and working with spirits, ancestors, plants and land.

Acknowledging the time and space that we’re in is sacred.

In ritual, the spiritual component is in the foreground.

Laura’s work with people who are transforming and shifting to help with move through a new experience; as well as chronic and mysterious health issues.

Ancestral repair work.

How being in relationship with her ancestors helped her clarify and align with her life path as a healer.

Laura’s pilgrimages to Siberia and the important process of re-indiginization she is dedicated to.